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Gabeba Baderoon

Gabeba Baderoon
Gabeba Baderoon is the author of the poetry collections The Dream in the Next Body (Kwela, 2005), A hundred silences (Kwela, 2006), and The History of Intimacy (Kwela, 2018; Northwestern, 2021). Among her honors are the Elisabeth Eybers Poetry Prize, the University of Johannesburg Prize, an Extraordinary Professorship of English at Stellenbosch University, and fellowships from Bellagio, Civitella Ranieri, and the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study. In 2024–25, Gabeba will be in residence at the Radcliffe Institute, where she will work on a memoir in verse, Autobiography of Sand: Relief Map of a Drifting Mind.


Landscapes of Pain: On Exploring the Intersections of Physical and Historical Trauma in South Africa

Gabeba Baderoon Considers the Ways We Do and Do Not Confront Personal and Collective Violence
January 10, 2025  By Gabeba Baderoon
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